Strata Florida (Latinised from Ystrad Fflûr, 'Plain of the Fflûr'), the ruins of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1164, 17 miles SE. of Aberystwith. Little of the building but a Norman archway and part of a wall are now standing; but excavations in 1857-88 laid bare the foundations and some fine tiled pavements. See the monograph by S. W. Williams (1889).
Strata Florida
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 761
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